How to quickly switch monitors on multi-monitor setup?

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Published on 2010-12-26T16:31:09Z Indexed on 2014/08/24 16:23 UTC
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At my desktop PC, I have 3 displays hooked up on my Palit GeForce GTX 480 to extend my desktop:

  • DVI: Samsung SyncMaster T220 (22" 16:10, 1680x1050, as my main)
  • DVI: Samsung SyncMaster 940BF (19" 4:3, 1280x1024)
  • HDMI: Sony Bravia KDL-32D3000 (32" 16:9, 1360x768)

As expected, the GFX card can only utilize 2 of the displays at any given time, so I have to manually switch using Windows' "Display Properties" dialog, each time I want to switch between them.

I've tried UltraMon, DisplayFusion and PowerStrip (so please don't refer me to a question where those are given as solutions) but they are unable to switch monitors. Instead they can only change display resolutions and settings on the existing active monitors, with specially weird results when I've saved the monitor states and then tried to switch monitors using the saved states!

Any idea on how to bypass the awful "Display Properties" dialog and it's "confirm your change" timer?

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